The job losses at the federal government and at state governments have hit nonfarm employment all year, and hard. State governments shed 45,000 jobs in 2025, including another 7,000 in December, after ...

1.6 million federal workers affected by layoffs or furloughs in 2025. Private sector hiring slows, though key industries still expanding. Health care, finance, tech and manufacturing show strongest ...

The Pioneer Institute released a report Wednesday comparing private payroll employment with government employment in the ...

America’s private sector added 22,000 jobs last month, payrolls processor ADP estimated on Wednesday, a signal of cooler job growth, while economists wait out a delay in the government’s official ...

(TNND) — White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said 60,000 private-sector jobs were lost because of the government shutdown. Those weren’t federal employees Hassett was talking about with ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted his administration's efforts to curb the size of the federal government's workforce while expanding private sector payrolls. "Since January, 100,000 ...

Companies in the private sector lost 32,000 jobs in November, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is below economists’ estimates of a gain of 10,000 jobs. The prior month's payrolls ...

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time in January, more than 3 million people worked for the federal government. While the Trump administration has taken many ...

WASHINGTON (KWTX) — The Trump administration highlighted private sector job growth in the latest employment report, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying President Trump is creating ...